Caption: Philippines, satellite image. North is at top. Natural colour satellite image showing the island nation of the Philippines. This Southeast Asian country is an archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, that lie in the western Pacific Ocean (blue). It is bounded by the Philippine Sea (blue, upper right and right), South China Sea (blue, upper left), Sulu Sea (blue, lower left), and Celebes Sea (bottom centre). Image compiled from data acquired by the LANDSAT 5 and 7 satellites, in 2000.